{"id":56,"date":"2007-03-17T22:26:16","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T05:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/17\/st-patricks-day-and-a-few-irish-genealogy-lists-and-indexes\/"},"modified":"2007-03-17T23:17:24","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T06:17:24","slug":"st-patricks-day-and-a-few-irish-genealogy-lists-and-indexes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/17\/st-patricks-day-and-a-few-irish-genealogy-lists-and-indexes\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Patrick’s Day and a Few Irish Genealogy Lists and Indexes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy St. Patrick’s Day<\/strong>.\u00a0 It is hard to stay gloomy on such a day–even if you are not sure you’re Irish!\u00a0 So here I am with a brandnew computer because a sudden, quick power-outage fried my motherboard.\u00a0 A new typeface.\u00a0 A whole new operating system, still unfamiliar to me.\u00a0 No printer.\u00a0 And I have no idea where my Outlook email account is.\u00a0 However, my Genealogy News Sheet<\/em> is up and running and here I am to share some wonderful Irish research tools you may not yet have discovered!<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.ucs.louisiana.edu\/bnl<\/a>\u00a0 The Belfast Newsletter<\/em> was established in 1737 and is still published today.\u00a0 Its contents included emigration lists and letters of thanks for safe arrival printed in the paper for the folks back home.\u00a0 It also published marriage and death notices.\u00a0 This everyname, online\u00a0index includes some 300,000 entries, 1737-1800.\u00a0 About 1\/4 of the issues survive before 1754, and from 1754-1800 there is almost a complete run.\u00a0 The original bound copies are in the Linen Hall Library, Belfast.\u00a0 Microfilm copies of the newsletter are available at University of Southwestern Louisiana, Fort Worth TX Public Library, and Illinois University at Bloomington, IL.\u00a0\u00a0 Descriptions online <\/strong>tell how to search the database and how to interpret the entries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For questions contact John C. Greene, Department of English, Univeristy of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette LA 70504 email jgreene@louisiana.edu<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Professor Greene makes a plea for us to publicize the sponsoring\u00a0institution so that additional monies will be made available to index other early Irish papers.<\/p>\n

The Belfast Newsletter:\u00a0 Notices of Marriages, Births, Deaths<\/em>, Jan 1947-June 1959.\u00a0 J.H.M. Woods, editor.\u00a0 Manuscript filmed at the Linen Hall Library, 3 reels.\u00a0 Family History Library #0258787-789.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Transcripts of Marriages, 1754-99, Belfast Parish Church.\u00a0 FH Library film #1701991, item 2.<\/p>\n

Irish Genealogical Abstracts:\u00a0 Londonderry Journal Index,\u00a01772-1784<\/em>.\u00a0 Donald M. Schlegel, editor.\u00a0\u00a0 Original files of his newspaper, 1772-1887 are located in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.\u00a0 The index includes births, marriages, deaths, probate \u00a0notices and appointments\u00a0of admin. and exec, saliing notices of ships\u00a0outbound from Irish ports, debt clearances, and much more.\u00a0 Londonderry was a very busy port.\u00a0 [A careful examination of any good map of Ireland shows the numerous seaside towns and villages from which saling craft of all sorts came and went.\u00a0 What of the people leaving from these coastal places?]<\/p>\n

Londonderry Journal, A Local Index.\u00a0 Vol I:\u00a0 1772-75<\/em>.\u00a0 Colin Hughes, editor.\u00a0 Derry:\u00a0 Northern Ireland Northwestern Centre for Learning, 1987.<\/p>\n

If you recall a cardinal rule of successful research\u00a0to prove your ancestry<\/strong>–if there are several versions of the same evidence, check them all.\u00a0\u00a0 And once you have checked the printed\/compiled versions, zero in on\u00a0your pertinent entries in the original records.\u00a0\u00a0 The survival of the data you need is a thing of chance.\u00a0 Search what survives.<\/p>\n

An excellent finding tool for specific parts of Ireland are the Lists of Freeholders in Ireland, 1760-1788<\/em>.\u00a0 MS 442, microfilmed at the Genealogical Office of Ireland, Dublin.\u00a0\u00a0 Family History Library film 0100181, item1.\u00a0 Includes Donegal, Fermanagh, Meath, Roscommon, Tipperary.\u00a0 This is a critical time period for Irish who emigrated to America right after the Revolutionary War ended.\u00a0 A little emigration occurred during the War.\u00a0 Then a flood occurred right after–this is when many Irish come to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans.\u00a0 Very important lists.<\/p>\n

I have some very special postings planned for the next two weeks–be sure to tune in\u00a0to all the episodes!\u00a0 One of the reasons you miss the right entries for your ancestors–you search the wrong dates and overlook significant periods of time.\u00a0 In honor of the many New Years’ Days we can celebrate in any given year, I\u00a0promise you at least one or two new facts<\/strong>\u00a0you do not know!\u00a0\u00a0 Watch!\u00a0 Your favorite genealogy expert, Arlene Eakle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

P.S.\u00a0 When you decide to solve your difficult genealogy research problems–remember me.\u00a0 I do research several hours every day somewhere.\u00a0 And I always have a special offer available\u00a0upon request.\u00a0\u00a0 If you email me, please include your postal address, since most of my stuff is not yet online.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Memoriam<\/strong>:\u00a0 Virginia Lee Archer\u00a0 passed away in Draper UT, 9 March 2007.\u00a0 She was a professional genealogist in Salt Lake City for many years.\u00a0\u00a0She taught an entire generation of beginners how to find their ancestors.\u00a0 And we will miss her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy St. Patrick’s Day.\u00a0 It is hard to stay gloomy on such a day–even if you are not sure you’re Irish!\u00a0 So here I am with a brandnew computer because a sudden, quick power-outage fried my motherboard.\u00a0 A new typeface.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}